Rhett Lately

Oh, this boy!  I feel like kids change so quickly at this age!  Here are just a few things I want to remember about our little Rhett Michael right now.  

*He is very aware and proud of his role as "big cousin" to Perry.  When he talks to her or asks or something, he uses the sweetest, kind of high pitched voice.  He LOVES her and although they definitely have their moments of fighting like siblings, they also have so much fun together!  

*He has started calling me "Mommy Kate" and Chris "Daddy Kate"!  Ha!  He refers to himself as "Rhett Mico" (Michael).  

*He loves when we hang his artwork on the fridge and when he is coloring or painting, he will put a couple of marks on a page and then bring it over to hang up before starting on another one.  

*He loves to sing and dance!  He makes the most hilarious facial expressions when he dances.  Such a ham!

*He is such a snuggler.  He loves to "snuggle momma" on the couch.  

*He loves telling knock knock jokes and they all involve an animal and the noise it makes.  His go to joke is, "Knock Knock.  Who's there?  Cow.  Cow who? MOOO!" 

*His favorite song for me to sing to him before bed is "We Wish You a Merry Christmas". :)

This boy wears us out and keeps us on our toes and we adore him!  

Christmas and New Years 2017

Christmas this year was a little bit different than normal, but still wonderful!  The kids are at such fun ages and we had a great couple of days celebrating Christmas with our families!  We have so much to be thankful for!  

We have December 23rd traditions of letting siblings exchange gifts and making a birthday cake for Jesus.  Georgia picked out a super hero lego set for Reid and Reid picked out a Jasmine princess for Georgia.  I loved seeing them get excited about choosing something for the other!  They gave Rhett some fake dirt and toy pigs. :)

We spent Christmas Eve with Mumsie, Popsie, Thomas, and Rebecca.  The Loddes were in Wisconsin and we missed them!  Since Christmas Eve was on a Sunday this year, we went to church in the morning instead of the afternoon like we usually do.  

We all came back to our house afterwards for a day of gingerbread houses, cookie decorating, present opening, and eating lots of yummy food.  It was strange not being at Mumsie and Popsie's house for Christmas Eve (since their house isn't ready), but we still had a fun day!

We started a new tradition of riding around in the back of the truck looking at lights before everyone headed home!  The kids LOVED this!

The big kids slept in our room in sleeping bags like they do every year.  We will let Rhett join in on the fun next year! :) 

While they were asleep, Santa came!!! He brought the kids just what they wanted - a pink and blue bike for GK, a race track for Reid, and some blocks and trucks for Rhett.  Everyone was very happy!  

The kids opened their presents from us and then Grandma, Grandpa, Sue, Christie, and Seth came over!  

We headed to the ranch for New Years Eve weekend this year and had a great time!  The kids have a blast just being outside in the wide open space.  They love collecting rocks, riding around in the gators, and learning the ropes of life at the ranch.  It was a cold weekend and we loved it!!

Chris and Grandpa put on a great fireworks show and the kids loved doing sparklers!

We are ready for 2018!

Christmas Card 2017

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

December Things!

This month we enjoyed some of our favorite Christmas festivities and traditions!  

We attended the Teddy Bear Tea at the St. Regis for the first time this year and it was absolutely adorable!

We visited Santa at Bass Pro Shop and there were no tears!  Georgia was very excited, smiled, and gave Santa a hug, Rhett was very serious and just looked at him in awe and waved, and Reid actually told Santa that he wanted a race track!

Georgia Kate and Reid had their Christmas programs at school!  I just love school Christmas programs.  I would have been sad that this was GK's last preschool program, but I was still recovering from the epic meltdown that occurred before and on the way to the school. ;) . She sure looked precious though!

The grandfathers were hunting, but Georgia was very happy to have her grandmothers there!

Reid had a small speaking part in his program and we were SO proud of him for doing it!  

This is Reid's entire school.  I love this sweet, little school and will always be thankful for the experience he has had there this year.  

Chris and Reid went to a Katy playoff game!  Believe it or not, this was his very first Katy game.  Katy football feels like Christmas time because it's just what this town does around here in the month of December! 

Mumsie and Popsie treated the family to a night at Santa's Wonderland!  We had lots of fun and I loved watching the kids' faces on the carriage ride through the lights!

The big kids had Christmas parties at school!  I was glad that I was able to attend both.  

GK had pajama/Polar Express day the day before her party.  

These girls were so excited to match on party day!  We love sweet Maggie-Jaymes.  

Reid and Mrs. Kniesly had a snowball fight! :)

I came home with two adorable treasures!  School Christmas gifts are my favorite! 

We took the big kids to see "The Star" one night and it was so good!  Definitely something we will watch every year!  

 Georgia Kate had a little Christmas performance at dance.  Her Frosty the Snowman dance was very cute!

Reid had his first basketball game!  He loved it!  The rest of the season will resume in January.  

We had our annual Brookwood Christmas lunch with the Myers girls!  We love this tradition!

We went with Perry to the Second Baptist train display!  We love seeing the trains every year!  

Our friends Penny and Nolan had a fun cookie decorating party at their house!

We did our best to wear lots of festive attire! 

We celebrated Christmas with Alli, John, and Perry a couple of weeks early since they would be going to Wisconsin this year!  Chris always does gag gifts for everyone and this year he went with a theme - hats! :)

December sure was FUN!